A reader sent me this, remarking “long-term effects of Ivermectin.” When my wife laughed so hard she almost lost consciousness, I thought I would write a quick post on it. The anti-science contingent in the United States is growing larger …
Category: Climate Change
First Time Ever Recorded, Rain at the Summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet
From Gizmodo: Last week, the Greenland ice sheet underwent a major melting event—its second in two weeks. This time around, the melting was quickened by a wholly unexpected and unwelcome visitor: rain.
Tagged with: cutting carbon emissions, geoengineering making changes to our atmosphere such that it reflects a higher percentage of the sun's radiation back into space, Greenland ice sheet, increasing the volume of carbon absorbing plants, sea levels rising at an ever increasing rate, The melting of Greenland and the antarctic, thermal expansion of the warming ocean waters
Moving to Electric Transportation
Garrison Keillor began his column today: My favorite word today is “unsubscribe” and I’ve been online clicking it on dozens of emails asking for my cash contributions to their battle in behalf of the good, the true, and the beautiful, …
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Climate Advisors To Implement Adaptation Measure on Eight Pacific Islands
The Rocky Mountain Institute, now called RMI, was founded in 1982, dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting its co-founder, chairman and chief scientist Amory Lovins at multiple conferences. …
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The Irony of Flooding in Texas
The photo here was taken yesterday, when the Texas State Capitol building flooded and this corridor became a lap pool. This, of course, is gushing (pun intended) with irony, given that this is where the legislators who created Texas’s horrific …
Tagged with: energy policy
Global Warming–Taking Real Action
It’s good to see that the news media has amped up its coverage of climate change, and that all but the QAnon-style lunatic fringe understands that human activity is the cause of the problem. That should mean that our civilization …
Are Global Temperatures Really Rising?
As global temperature readings keep coming in, it’s useful, on occasion, to use a bit of math to determine the probability that what we are calling climate change is actually happening at random. In statistics, we call this the “null …
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Stock Market Valuation Independent of Human Misery
My wife and I were just discussing the bullish nature of today’s stock market, during which I explained that the terrifying new report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has no bearing on the price of equities. That’s …
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Winning the Climate Change Battle
Since the release of the terrifying new IPCC report a few days ago, lots of people have been talking about the prognosis for humankind on this planet, wondering what if anything can be done to avert catastrophe. As suggested in …
Achieving Negative CO2 Emissions
According to Bloomberg, the terrifying new IPCC report on climate change has caused scientists to re-assert the need for negative CO2 emissions technologies, i.e., those that actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. There are several problems associated with this, …
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